The Cactus Blossoms perform "Adios Maria" on "The Lowertown Line." The Cactus Blossoms perform "Adios Maria" on an episode of "The Lowertown Line" filmed in TPT studios.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Before Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, there was Maria Moreno. In "Adios ...

Sonia Manzano never got to be a household name. But her face, and character, Maria, on “Sesame Street” occupied a special place in American homes for almost half a century. Manzano, who is 65 and ...

Years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta began organizing poor farm workers in California, a woman named Maria Moreno sought to sign up impoverished farm workers for a fledgling union. The Mexican ...

HOW do you solve a problem like Maria? Ana Ortiz used to be typecast as “Maria the maid, Maria the nanny, Maria the home wrecker,” she says. “I’m like, ‘It’s 2006, is Maria the best we can do?’ ” ...

Follow the search for a hero that history forgot: Maria Moreno. See how the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot: Maria Moreno, an eloquent migrant mother of ...